Substitute for Raised S.B. No. 455 Session Year 2018

AN ACT CONCERNING MINORITY TEACHER RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION.

To require the Department of Education to take certain actions to recruit and retain minority teachers, amend its regulations relating to teacher certification, issue a provisional educator certificate to certain holders of charter school educator permits, develop a definition of educator effectiveness and issue an initial educator certificate to applicants who have passed a relevant examination or completed advanced coursework, and to revise the membership of the minority teacher recruitment and retention task force.